It's the little touches that make this good, the dulling of the music underwater, the shaking of the screen with the monster's roar, the fact that if you don't climb when on the vines you slowly slide down. Brilliant!
I'm finding it addictive but more in a frustrating way. Occasionally I'm able to land on spikes without harm but die if I step on a platform? It's making the "A Difficult Chord" level a lot more difficult than it should be I think.